Building Hyperion: How Simmons Scattered His World Six backstories and a guy made of knives. September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis, Worldbuilding
Episode 394: Death Personified Don't Fear the Reaper-Cast August 28, 2022August 25, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock, and Avery
Five Stories With Too Many Characters How many characters is too many? We're glad you asked. August 27, 2022August 25, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Five Stories With Well-Written Families What if the hero wasn't an orphaned only child? August 20, 2022August 23, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Episode 392: Obi-Wan Kenobi But does he say "hello there," as the prophesy foretold? August 14, 2022August 11, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock, and Emma Riley
Strange New Worlds Reveals the Danger of a Theme-Breaking Plot In space, no one can hear you copying Alien. August 13, 2022August 13, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Episode 391: Murderbot Hacking governor modules across the corporate rim! August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock, and Alexa Johnson
Who Wins: The Mandalorian, Boba Fett, or Obi-Wan? Which show is the Force strong with? July 23, 2022September 27, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Lessons From the Appropriative Writing of Gemma Doyle An opening set in occupied India. What could go wrong? July 22, 2022July 30, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Analysis, Social Justice, Writing
Five Stories With Clashing Choices Like a tug of war in the plot. July 16, 2022July 13, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
How You Can Tell Kamala Khan Has ADHD A tale of coding so blatant that calling it coding is questionable. July 15, 2022July 21, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Analysis, Social Justice
Six Sloppy Character Arcs in Popular Stories What lessons are we supposed to learn here? July 9, 2022July 9, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Who Wins: The Martian, Artemis, or Project Hail Mary? One author enters, one author leaves. June 18, 2022September 27, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Six Important Story Elements Introduced Too Late Would have been nice to know about this in advance. June 11, 2022June 11, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Lessons From the Summary Writing of Illuminae Does this novel redefine the form, or does it have bad form? May 20, 2022May 27, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Analysis, Writing
Who Wins: Antz, A Bug’s Life, or Ant-Man? Uh-oh, there are ants all over this post. April 30, 2022September 27, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Five Inexplicable Planets in Star Trek They’re super weird with no explanation at all. April 16, 2022April 14, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Five Underwhelming Reveals in Speculative Fiction What happens when storytellers make mountains out of molehills. April 9, 2022April 7, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi in Analysis
Five Mediocre White Men From Big-Budget Stories Why root for a heroic protagonist when you can root for a mediocre white dude instead? April 8, 2022April 7, 2022 by Chris Winkle in Analysis, Social Justice
Episode 373: Speculative Westerns It can be horses or space ships, so long as someone has a duster. April 3, 2022July 30, 2022 by Oren Ashkenazi, Chris Winkle, Wes Matlock, and Avery
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